Question

Do you like eating raisins (葡萄干)? They are dried grapes that have been eaten w 16  _____for thousands of years. Nearly 3,500 years ago,the first raisins were d 17 _____as grapes that were drying in the sun on a vine(藤).In the past,Europeans used raisins as medicine and even as a f 18 _____ of money. In America,raisins were seen after an 1873 h 19 _____ wave in California destroyed its valuable grapes,leaving only dried but tasty grapes. Soon,some f 20  _____began developing seedless(無籽的)grapes in California. These grapes would be d 21 _____ in the sun and became the popular dark raisin we eat and enjoy today. Later,there was a kind of golden raisin. It was made by treating grapes with a chemical (化學(xué)物質(zhì)) and using some special methods to p 22 _____ them. Today, central California r 23 _____ the center of the world's raisin industry. It can p 24 _____ nearly 95 percent of the world's raisins. I 25  _____sunny climate and hot temperatures provide the perfect conditions for grapes that are dried into raisins.

16.__________ 17.__________ 18. __________

19. ______   20. _____    21.__________ 

22.________  23.________  24._________ 25. _____   

Answer 1

 16. widely 17. discovered 18. form 19. heat 20. farmers 21. dried

22. process 23. remains 24. produce 25. Its